5 10 106 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/40f984a638bcc7886ab6ff99aef2de83.png 0bb09591f46d0f97dc3ac9758720802e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aerial view of the corner of Washington and School streets, packed tightly with people. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 2 1914 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/4e3e159240064e98c85ba15c77848ca4.png a5322d904ae407d676da2940cafe234d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Membership card for Equality League of Self-Supporting Women Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbcmil.scrp5013102 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909 Description An account of the resource Founded in 1907 by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (later called the Women’s Political Union) worked to involve working-class women in the suffrage movement, particularly in New York. This card, printed sometime before 1909, certified membership and requested a twenty-five-cent admission fee for new members. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/2dc978a53b8b85f23831f715984af07c.jpg 8a9373b4f2ab4d83c45e892f0d6f74f8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Votes for Women: Take Economics" Description An account of the resource This suffrage-themed advertisement for an Economics class at Simmons in 1914 suggests the presence of pro-suffrage faculty and students in the Household Economics department. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Microcosm Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1914 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/1339e9d8f9d7a43b388e96a556ef5101.jpg cfd18349351310b595015f2472f95e57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Woman Suffrage Cook Book Description An account of the resource Edited by suffragist Mrs. L.O. Kleber, The Suffrage Cook Book (1915) was one of several culinary collaborations produced by suffragists to spread awareness and raise funds for the cause during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Like the others of its kind, The Suffrage Cook Book contained a variety of serious and satirical recipes from women contributors, interspersed with photographs, jokes, and celebrity quotes and endorsements. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Michigan State University Archives https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5dm30 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1890 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/e34d32bfd7c2c5d19c463708bdc10e6c.jpg b6614e322e9b4d08e74279aa5227f4d2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Blanche Castleman posed near North Hall steps 1917 Description An account of the resource Born in 1897 in Rochester, New York, Blanche Castleman ‘19 studied Library Science at Simmons, where she was a member of the Bulletin Board Committee, the Dormitory Council, and the Dramatics Society. She later became a librarian at Jefferson Junior High School in Rochester, and married teacher Clarence James Link in 1922; the couple had one daughter, Barbara, born in 1925. Blanche Castleman died in 1980 and is buried in Rochester. While at Simmons, Castleman attended the Boston Suffrage March in 1915 and kept a fragment of a red anti-suffrage streamer in her scrapbook as a memento. Though no evidence remains to confirm either her support of or opposition to the women’s suffrage cause, her attendance at the march nevertheless suggests that Castleman was one of many politically engaged Simmons students during the 1910s. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1917 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/a2269344c69c3ee93e86c0621d1b0811.png ff36167f79245d869afbadc08715a11d https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/7afe51d6ebba50f398e4906f0ededba4.png a1d527e340f6ffcd6f3d04864fc35064 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Simmons' will Description An account of the resource When clothing manufacturer John Simmons died in 1870, he left provisions in his will “to found and endow an institution to be called Simmons Female College.” The necessary funds were not secured until almost thirty years later, but when Simmons College opened its doors in 1899, it remained committed to Simmons’s vision of a college that would give women an opportunity to “acquire an independent livelihood.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Simmons Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/74060bf4f787a89851315f7dd228ddf0.jpg 03c6e76abba1aab5d1f8939ee4d5ebd2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women protest for the right to vote in 1915 at Massachusetts College of Agriculture - Amherst Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lawrence Goldberg Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Boston Globe Library Collection at the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available News at Northeastern Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1915 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/561c627ad3adb7c2e10077bab2efd4a6.jpg f0dd259a9c208a3a2be3c2a8a0e166b3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Notable women of Boston mural Description An account of the resource Given to Simmons College September 1985 by the Workingmens Cooperative Bank. Hung in Bartol Hall. Portrayed are: Anne Hutchinson, Phyllis Wheatley, Sister Ann Alexis, Lucy Stone, Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen Richards, Mary Morton Kehew, Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, and Melnea Cass, 1985. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ellen Lanyon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/e7d617e71d696d3c3ebe75d6f6020846.jpg 954b0d12af04e35f21443c4529e7db65 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women's March in Boston Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lisa Nault Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Simmons Voice Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/5d47b6f68bdec1bb334df3e47e21538e.jpg 5448593d60aa99c8fac4b11165d4ed64 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dorothy C. Boulding Ferebee '20 Description An account of the resource Dorothy Celeste Boulding was born in Norfolk, Virginia around 1898 to Benjamin and Florence Ruffin Boulding. She spent much of her childhood in Boston, living with an aunt while her mother recovered from an illness. Boulding graduated from the Girls’ High School in 1915, then spent a year taking additional courses in order to prepare for college. She enrolled at Simmons in 1916, studying Medical Secretarial Services. She was known among her classmates for both academic excellence and athletic skill, playing on the basketball, hockey, and track teams and graduating with honors in 1920. Inspired by encouragement from her Simmons professors, Boulding went on to attend Tufts Medical School, again graduating near the top of her class in 1924. Despite her academic accomplishments, however, internship opportunities for Black women doctors were scarce in Boston, so she moved to Washington, D.C. and found a position at Freedmen’s Hospital, the teaching hospital for Howard University’s medical school. Here, Boulding developed her interest in obstetrics, earning appointments as an obstetrical clinician in 1927 and women’s physician in 1929. Boulding remained involved with the Howard Medical School for the rest of her career, returning as a professor of obstetrics even after she opened her own practice, and, later, serving as Director of the University Health Service. During her time as an obstetric intern at Howard, Boulding witnessed firsthand the racial and class inequalities in Washington’s Black neighborhoods. Outraged by the lack of childcare options available to working mothers, she founded the South East Settlement House in 1929 in order to provide daycare and recreational programs for the Black children who were barred from the nearby white settlement houses. This early interest in racial justice was only one chapter in Boulding’s lifelong involvement with civil rights activism, reflected in an anti-lynching essay she wrote as an undergraduate and her later participation in a voter registration drive in Alabama in 1963. In 1930, Boulding married Claude Ferebee, a dentist and fellow Howard instructor; she gave birth to twins the following year. Though Dorothy’s husband was initially supportive of her career, he grew increasingly envious of her success during the 1930s. Beginning in 1933, she spent her summers serving as medical director of the Mississippi Health Project’s mobile health clinic initiative, traveling to rural communities with a team of Black women volunteers to offer free medical services and public health education to Black tenant farmers and their families. Though World War II put an end to the program in 1941, Ferebee’s work in Mississippi won her national renown as an advocate for racial equality in healthcare. Unable to convince her to give up her career, Claude moved to New York in the early 1940s, and, following the death of their daughter in 1950, the couple divorced. Dorothy continued teaching at Howard and running a medical practice until her retirement in 1968. During the 1950s and 1960s, she also served as a medical consultant to the Peace Corps and the Department of State, traveling throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East to work with mothers and children and give lectures on public health. In the midst of her medical career, Ferebee was active in a staggering number of social, political, and scientific organizations, including the Pan-American Medical Women’s Alliance, UNICEF, and the Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, among many others. At various times, she served on the boards of the Girl Scouts of America, the YWCA, the American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods (ACTION), and the National Welfare Assembly. Throughout her life, she remained a strong advocate for Black women, and was President of the National Council for Negro Women (1949-1953), Chairperson of the D.C. Commission on the Status of Women (1971-1974), and head of Washington’s International Women’s Year initiative (1975), as well as the founder of American University’s Women’s Institute. Though no evidence remains of her suffrage activism in the 1920s, Ferebee’s commitment to women’s rights is visible in her later support of the Equal Rights Amendment and her advocacy for birth control and abortion rights, as well as her membership in the League of Women Voters. She also maintained a lifelong connection to Simmons, becoming the first recipient of the Alumnae Achievement award in 1959 and serving on the Board of Trustees in the 1970s. Ferebee died in 1980 and is remembered as a civil rights activist, a public health advocate, and a pioneer for Black women in medicine. A Simmons scholarship was set up in her name in 1988. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1920